[PLUG] Directory Permissions

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Grishnav wrote:

> How are they going to be downloading them? Via ftp/sftp/etc. or via the web 
> server?

Grishnav,

   I imagine that web browsers will be used.

> In the case of Apache, what you want to do is turn of indexing for the 
> directory:
>
> <Directory /foo/bar/bah>
>   Options -Indexes
> </Directory>
>
> The Unix permissions on the directory don't matter so much as long as Apache 
> can read the directory and the files and they can't be overwritten by anyone 
> else...

   Thank you very much. I'll pass this on. I think this is the solution that's
needed.

Rich

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